~ December Break Announcement~

Hello Bookenders!

Hope everyone if doing well. Thank you so much to those of you who were able to come out to our November meeting. It's a hectic time of year for many of us, so it meant a lot. Just a quick note on the month of December; due to exams and the break coming up, Bookends will resume when second semester commences. So everyone good luck on assignmnets and exams coming your way. And hope all of you have a great holiday! Enjoy the much deserved break and hope you all get a chance to read as well.

Happy Reading,

Thurga Ganeshamoothy
Director, Bookends
University of Toronto

~ November's Book of the Month ~

Hello Bookenders'!!

Votes are in and a book has been chosen. For the month of November we will be reading.............

Battle Royal by Koushun Takami

For this month we'll be focusing on the literature through both the written format and the illustrations as well. Can't wait to discuss this book. Below you will find information regarding our meeting date/location. Can't wait to see all of you. Until then Happy Reading!

- Meeting Information -

Date: Monday, November 30th, 2015

Time: 7:30 pm -8:15 pm

Location: Marvin Gerstein Room (main floor through the reading room doors) 

                  Address - 

               Gerstein Science Information Centre
               Sigmund Samuel Library Building
               9 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 1A5

Thurga Ganeshamoorthy

Director, Bookends

University of Toronto

~ November Nominations ~

Hello Bookenders!!!

Thank you so much for those of you that nominated books to be read this month. Below you will find the list of books you can choose from, the link to vote and also a doodle link to help decide when our next meeting will be. Can't wait to see which book gets chosen.

Nominated Books

1. Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 1 by Sui Ishida

"Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way—except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid.Shy Ken Kaneki is thrilled to go on a date with the beautiful Rize. But it turns out that she’s only interested in his body—eating it, that is. When a morally questionable rescue transforms him into the first half-human half-Ghoul hybrid, Ken is drawn into the dark and violent world of Ghouls, which exists alongside our own. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers."

2. Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

 

"In an alternative future Japan, junior high students are forced to fight to the death! L to R (Western Style). Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller is based on an irresistible premise: a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided arms and forced to kill one another until only one survivor is left standing. Criticized as violent exploitation when first published in Japan--where it then proceeded to become a runaway bestseller--Battle Royale is a Lord of the Flies for the 21st century, a potent allegory of what it means to be young and (barely) alive in a dog-eat-dog world. Made into a controversial hit movie of the same name, Battle Royale is already a contemporary Japanese pulp classic, now available for the first time in the English language. A group of high school students are taken to small isolated island and forced to fight each other until only one remains alive! If they break the rules a special collar blows their heads off. Koushun Takami's brutal, high-octane thriller is told in breathless. blow-by-blow fashion. Battle Royale is a contemporary Japanese pulp classic now available for the first time in English."

3. Watchmen by Alan Moore

 

"This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin.One of the most influential graphic novels of all time and a perennial best-seller, Watchmen has been studied on college campuses across the nation and is considered a gateway title, leading readers to other graphic novels such as V for Vendetta, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and The Sandman series."

4. Death Note, Vol. 1 by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata

"Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects--and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. Will Light's noble goal succeed, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?"

 

These are the nominations for this month, below you can find the respective links. Happy Reading and Don't forget to vote!

 

Link to Vote:

~ Vote Here ~ 

Link to Doodle:

~ Doodle for Meeting Date/Time ~

 

Thurga Ganeshamoorthy

Director, Bookends

University of Toronto

~Thank Yous and Themes~

Hello Bookenders'!

Hope everyone is doing well and looking forward to the upcoming weekend. First and foremost Thank You to those of you that were able to make it out to the last meeting; either the book discussion or the movie viewing or even both! I know we all have crazy schedules and those of you who couldn't make it, that's totally fine; hopefully you can all make it out to the next meeting. As one month ends and another is around the corner it means a new theme and a new book are to be picked! At our last meeting themes were discussed and it has been chosen; to look at literature through both words and illustrations. Meaning the theme of November is......... Comic Books/ Anime/ Manga! So send in your nominations for the upcoming month. Look out for a future email containing the voting poll and a doddle for the next meeting. Hope all you have a Spooktacular Halloween! Thurga Ganeshamoorthy Director, Bookends University of Toronto

~ Book of the Month ~

Hey Bookenders'!

Votes are in and the book of the month is.......................

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

 

     

 

 

We'll be reading Gone Girl for this month, then we will be watching the movie at the end of the month as well. The meeting is divided into two parts; first part being book discussion and the second part is the movie viewing. If you can't make both try to make it to whichever meets your convenience. The whole meeting will take place at the same location. Meeting information is below; happy reading and can't wait to discuss this book!

 

- October Meeting - 

 

When: Tuesday, October 27th, 2015

At: 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm (Book Discussion) & 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm (Movie Screening)

Where: Media Commons Room # 1 - Robrats Library  

 

Thurga Ganeshamoorthy

Director of Bookends

University of Toronto St. George

 

~October Nominations~

Hello Bookenders'!!!

Here are the book nominations for the month; below you will find the link to vote for the book you would like to read. Voting ends Monday and then you will find out which book we will be reading and which movie we will be watching as well. The date of the meeting will be announced then too. Happy Voting and can't wait to see which book is chosen for this month!

Nominated Books

1. Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

 

"In an alternative future Japan, junior high students are forced to fight to the death! L to R (Western Style). Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller is based on an irresistible premise: a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided arms and forced to kill one another until only one survivor is left standing. Criticized as violent exploitation when first published in Japan--where it then proceeded to become a runaway bestseller--Battle Royale is a Lord of the Flies for the 21st century, a potent allegory of what it means to be young and (barely) alive in a dog-eat-dog world. Made into a controversial hit movie of the same name, Battle Royale is already a contemporary Japanese pulp classic, now available for the first time in the English language. A group of high school students are taken to small isolated island and forced to fight each other until only one remains alive! If they break the rules a special collar blows their heads off. Koushun Takami's brutal, high-octane thriller is told in breathless. blow-by-blow fashion. Battle Royale is a contemporary Japanese pulp classic now available for the first time in English." 

2. Dune by Frank Herbert

"Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family--and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream. A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what it undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction".

3. The Double by José Saramago

"Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. But during the night, when he is awakened by noises in his apartment, he goes into the living room to find that the VCR is replaying the video. He watches in astonishment as a man who looks exactly like him-or, more specifically, exactly like he did five years before, mustachioed and fuller in the face-appears on the screen. He sleeps badly.

Against his better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double. As he roots out the man's identity, what begins as a whimsical story becomes a "wonderfully twisted meditation on identity and individuality" (The Boston Globe). Saramago displays his remarkable talent in this haunting tale of appearance versus reality."

4. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

"On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer?"

5. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

"Few creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein's terrible creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. Considering the novel's enduring success, it is remarkable that it began merely as a whim of Lord Byron's."

"We will each write a story," Byron announced to his next-door neighbors, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley. The friends were summering on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1816, Shelley still unknown as a poet and Byron writing the third canto of Childe Harold. When continued rains kept them confined indoors, all agreed to Byron's proposal.
The illustrious poets failed to complete their ghost stories, but Mary Shelley rose supremely to the challenge. With Frankenstein, she succeeded admirably in the task she set for herself: to create a story that, in her own words, "would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror — one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart."

 

 

Vote Here

~First Meeting of the Year; Bookends 2015-2016~

Hellooooo fellow Bookenders!!

Welcome to the new year, hope everyone's first month of school is going smoothly.

Just wanted to give a Warm Welcome to both old returning members and new members this year.

Get ready for a new year full of new adventures and great reads!  

We'll be starting the year off with a Meet and Greet Meeting, the first meeting of the year. Where questions will be answered, fellow Bookenders will be meet and great conversations are bound to happen! Can't wait to meet all of you. Below is more information on where and when the meeting will take place. All you need to bring to the meeting is yourselves, friends are welcome of course and your smiles. See you all there!

First meeting:  

Date: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015

Time: 5-7 pm

Location: Hart House (7 Hart House Circle Toronto, ON M5S 3H3 Canada)

              in the Board Room (on the second floor to the left)

Hope To See You There!

- Thurga

Director of Bookends

University of Toronto St. George

~March Meeting + Movie Viewing!~

Hey Bookenders!

Hope everything's going great, below you will find information on when our next meeting is; during this time we will discuss the book for a small portion and then we will be viewing the movie!  Hope to see all of you there!

Date: Tuesday March 31st, 2015

Time: 5:30 - 8:30 [ we will discuss the book from 5:30-6:00 and watch the movie in the remaining time, so drop by when ever you can make it, and you don't have to stay for the whole portion or you don't have to be there for the very beginning too]

Location: Media Commons, Room - The Videoconference Room
Address:  130 St George St, 3rd Floor
                Toronto, Ontario
                M5S 1A5

Hope to see you there!

Happy Reading,

Thurga

~ The book of March ~

Votes are in and the book we will be reading / the movie we will be watching is..........................

                             

 

 

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion and directed by Jonathan Levine

 

 

We will be reading Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion and then watching the movie as well based on the book. Our meeting will be happening at the end of this month and the viewing of the movie will be happening the same day. More details regarding meeting details will be emailed out soon. As for now Happy Reading and can't wait to talk about the book/movie with all of you.

 

-Thurga 

~ The Theme for March + Book Nominations ~

Hello Bookenders!

The end is soon approaching and we have reached our final month of Bookends. The theme for the month has been chosen and it will be.................. A Book and Movie Combo! Below are some book nominations that came in as well. Don't forget to follow the links below for voting and for our future meeting session.

1.) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald



The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers.

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,” it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.

The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.

2.) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Sting Larson



Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle, Henrik, is convinced that she was murdered by someone from her own deeply dysfunctional family. Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist is hired to investigate, but he quickly finds himself in over his head. He hires a competent assistant: the gifted and conscience-free computer specialist Lisbeth Salander, and the two unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.

3.) Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson



Christine wakes up every morning in an unfamiliar bed with an unfamiliar man. And every morning that man must explain that he is Ben, he is her husband; she is forty-seven years old; and a terrible accident two decades earlier decimated her ability to form new memories. But it's the phone call from a neurologist named Dr. Nash that directs her to her hidden journal. For the past few weeks, Christine has been recording her activities and rereading past entries, learning the facts of her life as retold by the husband upon whom she is completely dependent. As the entries accumulate, Christine finds herself asking more and more questions-about what she missed and what Ben might not be telling her...

4.) The Maze Runner by James Dashner



If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human.
When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone.

Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade.

Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It’s the only way out—and no one’s ever made it through alive.

Everything is going to change.

Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And the message she delivers is terrifying.
 
Remember. Survive. Run.

5.) Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion



R is a young man with an existential crisis--he is a zombie. He shuffles through an America destroyed by war, social collapse, and the mindless hunger of his undead comrades, but he craves something more than blood and brains. He can speak just a few grunted syllables, but his inner life is deep, full of wonder and longing. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he has dreams.

After experiencing a teenage boy's memories while consuming his brain, R makes an unexpected choice that begins a tense, awkward, and strangely sweet relationship with the victim's human girlfriend. Julie is a blast of color in the otherwise dreary and gray landscape that surrounds R. His decision to protect her will transform not only R, but his fellow Dead, and perhaps their whole lifeless world.

Scary, funny, and surprisingly poignant, Warm Bodies is about being alive, being dead, and the blurry line in between.

6.) Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin



The smash-hit debut novel for every woman who has ever had a complicated love-hate friendship.

 

Rachel White is the consummate good girl. A hard-working attorney at a large Manhattan law firm and a diligent maid of honor to her charmed best friend Darcy, Rachel has always played by all the rules. Since grade school, she has watched Darcy shine, quietly accepting the sidekick role in their lopsided friendship. But that suddenly changes the night of her thirtieth birthday when Rachel finally confesses her feelings to Darcy's fiancé, and is both horrified and thrilled to discover that he feels the same way. As the wedding date draws near, events spiral out of control, and Rachel knows she must make a choice between her heart and conscience. In so doing, she discovers that the lines between right and wrong can be blurry, endings aren't always neat, and sometimes you have to risk everything to be true to yourself.

 

 

~ Vote Here For The Book of March ~

 

 

~ Fill this out for our March Meeting ~

 

Happy Reading

 

- Thurga

 

 

~ Events ~

Hello Bookenders!
 
Just some house keeping announcements you can find below.

 
1.) TCAF 2015 The Toronto Comic Arts Festival

 Where: Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge Street

When: Saturday, May 9, 9am-5pm
          Sunday, May 10, 11am-5pm

          **Free to attend

More Info: http://torontocomics.com/

 

2.) World Book and Copyright Day Event (Read - in)

 Where: Robarts Library

When: April 23rd, 2015

Time: 9:00am to roughly 7:30pm  

What's being read: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Want to volunteer to read ? > For more information email me!



- Thurga

~ The Book of February + Meeting Info ~

And the votes are in..............................

The book we'll be reading for this month is - Me Before You by Jojo Moyes! 



 

Now that the book has been chosen start reading! Can't wait to discuss this next time we see each other. Below you can find info regarding when and where our meeting will be taking place. Have an amazing reading week, you all deserve it. Sleep, catch up on relaxing and reading!

 

Meeting Info

 

Date: Thursday, February 26th, 2015

 

Time: 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm

 

Location: Marvin Room (Gerstein Library); on the main floor through the reading room. 



 

~ February Nominations ~

Hello Bookenders'!

Now that it's a new month, it's also time for a new theme and book. During the last meeting the members that attended and I discussed themes that will go well with the month of February. It was decided we should go in a bit of an opposite direction then the regular themes for February......... the theme of the month is Tragic Love stories! Below you will find some books that correspond with the theme and a link to vote on which book you would like to read for this month.


1.) A Walk To Remember by Nicholas Sparks

 

"There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he''d been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he''d fall for was Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town''s Baptist minister....Jamie, who was destined to show him the depths of the human heart-and the joy and pain of living. The inspiration for this novel came from Nicholas Sparks''s sister: her life and her courage. From the internationally bestselling author Nicholas Sparks, comes his most moving story yet...."

 

 

2.) The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

 

 

"Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.

Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars brilliantly explores the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love."

 

 

3.) Raw by Belle Aurora

 

 

"Growing up the way I did, you’d think I’d be more screwed up than what I actually am.
Soon as I turned sixteen, I left that bump in the road I called home and took my chances on the street.
Best decision I ever made.
Now, at the age of twenty six, I’m educated, employed and damn good at my job.
My friends have become my family. Like me, they know what it’s like to grow up unloved.
But the saying is true.
The world makes way for those who know where they are going.
That’s me.
I know where I’m going and I’ll get there eventually. On my own terms and at my own pace.
But then there’s him.
I feel his eyes on me. I see him hiding in plain sight. He watches me.
He makes me feel.
It’s unconventional.
But it’s real.
I’m sure you’re wondering how a person falls in love with their stalker.
So am I.
This isn’t a story.
This is my life."

 

 

4.) Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

 

 

"They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . .

Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is.

Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living.

A Love Story for this generation, Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn’t have less in common—a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?"

 

 

5.) Atonement by Ian McEwan

 

 

"On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge.
By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl's imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone."

 

 

Vote Here:  Nomination Voting Here

 

Doodle for Meeting Availability:  February Meeting

 

Thank You and Happy Reading,  

 

Thurga

 

 



 





 

  



 



~ January Session ~

Hi Everyone!

Our monthly meeting is coming up;  below you can find information regarding when it will happen. The location will be provided soon, so look out for an email coming your way. During this meeting we'll be discussing Gone by Michael Grant; and it's totally fine if you didn't finish the book. You can always drop by and discuss the book in general and things you like so far. Can't wait to see you all soon!

Date: Tuesday, January 27th, 2015

Time: 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Location: South Sitting Room (Hart House)


See you soon!

- Thurga

~ The Book of the Month for January ~

And the votes are in.............................!

Hello fellow Bookenders! All the votes are in and have been counted. The book we'll be reading for the month of January will be:

 

"In the blink of an eye.

Everyone disappears.

Gone.

Everyone except for the young. Teens. Middle schoolers. Toddlers. But not a single adult. No teachers, no cops, no doctors, no parents. Gone, too, are the phones, internet, and television. There is no way to get help.

Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents-unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers-that grow stronger by the day.

It''s a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen and war is imminent.

The first in a breathtaking saga about teens battling each other and their darkest selves, gone is a page-turning thriller that will make you look at the world in a whole new way."

 

 

That's right for this month we'll be reading Gone by Michael Grant! Definitely full of new beginnings. Thank you to all of you that got a chance to vote, can't wait to see all of you soon.

 

 

Happy Reading!

 

 

-Thurga 

December Book Discussion Session!

Hello Bookenders!

During this session we'll be discussing the book of December, IT by Stephen King. Below you will find information on when and where the meeting will take place. Can't wait to see all of you that could make it!

Date: Tuesday, January 13th, 2015
Time: 5pm - 6pm
Location: Boardroom at Hart House

Can't wait to talk about the book, your holiday breaks and life. See you soon!

~ January Nominations ~

Nominations are in...............................!

First and foremost, thank you to those of you that sent in nominations; below are the book nominations for this month and the link to also vote!

1. The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

 

"On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter has a near-fatal car accident. His older sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when Mark emerges from a coma, he believes that this woman--who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister--is really an imposter. When Karin contacts the famous cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber for help, he diagnoses Mark as having Capgras syndrome. The mysterious nature of the disease, combined with the strange circumstances surrounding Mark''s accident, threatens to change all of their lives beyond recognition. In The Echo Maker, Richard Powers proves himself to be one of our boldest and most entertaining novelists."

 

 

2. Before I Go To Sleep by SJ Watson

 

 

"Christine wakes up every morning with an unfamiliar man. She looks in the mirror and sees an unfamiliar, middle-aged face. And every morning, the man she wakes up to must explain that he is Ben, he is her husband, and a terrible accident two decades earlier decimated her ability to form new memories.

But it''s the phone call from a Dr. Nash-a neurologist who claims to be working with Christine, without her husband''s knowledge-that directs her to her journal, hidden in the back of her closet. For the past few weeks, Christine has been recording her daily activities and rereading past entries, relearning the facts of her life as retold by the husband upon whom she has become completely dependent. As the entries accumulate, inconsistencies in Ben''s account jump off the page. What was life like before the accident? Do they have a child? And what exactly was the horrific accident that caused such a profound loss of memory?

The closer Christine gets to the truth, the more unbelievable it seems"

 

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3. Gone by Michael Grant

 

 

"In the blink of an eye.

Everyone disappears.

Gone.

Everyone except for the young. Teens. Middle schoolers. Toddlers. But not a single adult. No teachers, no cops, no doctors, no parents. Gone, too, are the phones, internet, and television. There is no way to get help.

Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents-unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers-that grow stronger by the day.

It''s a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen and war is imminent.

The first in a breathtaking saga about teens battling each other and their darkest selves, gone is a page-turning thriller that will make you look at the world in a whole new way."

 

 

4. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

 

 

"Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another...

In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon—when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an "outlander"—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord...1743.

Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire''s destiny in soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life ...and shatter her heart. For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives."

 

 

5. Looking for Alaska by John Green

 

 



"Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . ."

 

 

These are the nominations of the month! Don't forget to vote and see you all soon!

 

-Thurga

 

 

~ Vote Here ~